Tarthang Tulku

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche at a Vesak celebration arranged by the White House Office in May 2021

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: དར་ཐང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: Dar-thang Sprul-sku Rin-po-che) (born 1934) is a Tibetan Vajrayana teacher and lama who introduced the Nyingma school tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to the United States.[1][2] Tarthang Tulku works to preserve the buddhadharma, the art and the culture of Tibet. He oversees various projects including Dharma Publishing, Yeshe-De, Tibetan Aid Project,[3] the annual Nyingma school Monlam Chenmo World Peace Ceremony in Bodhgaya,[4] and the construction of the Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala. Tarthang Tulku also introduced Kum Nye to the West.[5]

  1. ^ Prebish, Charles S. (1998). The Faces of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520213012.
  2. ^ Our Founder
  3. ^ Our History
  4. ^ Nyingma Institute, Berkeley, https://nyingmainstitute.com/our-founder/
  5. ^ Tarthang Tulku Archived 2010-04-16 at the Wayback Machine